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Pulcinella in a 19th-century Italian print Capodimonte porcelain jar with three figures of Pulcinella. Naples , Italy, 1745–1750. Pulcinella ( Italian: [pultʃiˈnɛlla] ; Neapolitan : Pulecenella ) is a classical character that originated in commedia dell'arte of the 17th century and became a stock character in Neapolitan puppetry .
A large number of other works by members and pupils of the same family, but unsigned, exist in Rome. These are mainly altars and baldacchini , choir-screens , paschal candlesticks , ambones , tombs and the like, all enriched with sculpture and glass mosaic of great brilliance and decorative effect.
Altar frontal of Italian opera di commessi, Dubrovnik Cathedral Detail of design with roses over crossed canes, 1882. Pietra dura (Italian: [ˈpjɛːtra ˈduːra]), pietre dure ([ˈpjɛːtre ˈduːre]) or intarsia lapidary [1] (), called parchin kari or parchinkari (Persian: پرچین کاری) in the Indian Subcontinent, is a term for the inlay technique of using cut and fitted, highly ...
It is thought that Agostino Veneziano may have created a single replacement set of engravings for the images created by Giulio and Marcantonio in I modi. [1] There is one whole image as well as nine fragments cut from seven engravings that are in the British Museum, and it is thought that all of these images come from this replacement set of engravings by Agostino. [1]
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Canaletto's views always fetched high prices, and as early as the 18th century Catherine the Great and other European monarchs vied for his grandest paintings. The record price paid at auction for a Canaletto is £ 18.6 million for View of the Grand Canal from Palazzo Balbi to the Rialto , set at Sotheby's in London in July 2005.
A California man who pleaded guilty to a felony for his participation in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol filed a letter Wednesday showing he was personally invited by a retired Republican ...